Classic British Flight Sim

Happened on 23rd Aug but havent heard about this untill I read the Metro...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... unway.html

How close can you be

Thank goodness he crawled away from that

Amazing shots and I'm surprised not been wideley seen

Tough machine

Thanks for posting Chirs

He's lucky to have survived that crash. Glider looks like it will be written off.

Dang! Amazing/terrifying pics. Glad he's ok.

Brian

That must have hurt! Damn lucky to be alive!

Wow! Obviously the composite structure of the glider did it's job superbly! As you say Garry, surprised that's not made the wider news, probably because it's not a video!

I'm due to go gliding before the end of the year, so I don't think I'll show this to the wife...

James

Video of the accident -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxbulrrQVig

Looks like the impact was actually at a fairly low airspeed. From the looks of it, he stalled while trying to turn into the wind on final during a very gusty wind condition. Unfortunate and not much he could do in that case with as bumpy as it was.

The wingtip impacting first probably helped as well.

You can see how much the wing bent so it acted a bit like a spring

Ouch!!

Lucky, Lucky Guy! Nice to see he's ok, Im sure he's never landed like that before!!